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March 30, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	I wonder if the year 2021, which sounds so surreal to people from the 20th century, what does it sound like to somebody born in the 90s?
	What is the psychological impact, if any?
	I don't know the answer, but I wonder.
	In any event, the President of the United States and the Democratic Party wish to spend what is the next sum of money on infrastructure?
	3.9.
	Don't they do it at.9?
	It's somewhat like, you know, ah, it's not 10 bucks, it's $9.99.
	$4 trillion more?
	Above the, how many trillion of the stimulus, the second stimulus?
	Two.
	Two trillion.
	And the, I'm sorry?
	One point nine.
	Yeah, one nine.
	We'll round it out.
	Okay.
	And that's six.
	And how much was the first stimulus in the Trump administration?
	Sorry?
	Close to one trillion, I think.
	No, it was more than that, I think.
	Take a look.
	Take a look.
	My friends, do you realize, if I'm not mistaken, a trillion is a thousand billion.
	The country was already in terrible debt.
	What are the assumptions with these expenditures?
	But I'll tell you, I wouldn't be nearly as disturbed if they were honest expenditures.
	Half of the 1.9 trillion is just going to bail out democratic states.
	That just pay more and more money in pensions to unions.
	It is the essence of corruption.
	And it hurts me, because I've had to undergo a reorientation in the last year.
	I admit it.
	And I am open to criticism of having been naive earlier.
	I hate naivete in adults.
	But if I'm guilty, I'm guilty.
	I expected a little more from Americans.
	The corruption at the top, at the CDC, the FBI, I guess if it has a three-letter acronym, it's corrupt.
	NPR, PBS, CBS, NBC, CNN. It's really, it's not what I expected.
	To spend all this money on states and cities to bail them out after being so profligate and spending corruptly.
	They don't have to face the consequences of what they did in L.A. or New York or elsewhere.
	I wish I had an answer.
	I won't spend much time in my life on I wish.
	Here's a wish.
	I wish I could know for certain that the Georgia vote was legit.
	I'm not saying it wasn't.
	And I'm not saying that I'm convinced it was.
	And there's nothing to be done about it that I know of.
	The reason that I would like to know it is because I would like to know, did Republicans in Georgia in any number not vote because of anger over the election, the national election, and thereby turn the country over to crooks, to malicious crooks?
	Many people need to do penitence, none more than a Republican in Georgia who didn't vote in the runoff.
	The trial has begun.
	I was watching Tucker Carlson last night.
	Apparently CNN is sort of wall-to-wall, the George Floyd trial.
	And he pointed out correctly the zero attention paid, like to that poor Pakistani driver, the Uber Eats driver.
	What city was that in?
	And he was two girls just hijacked his car and smashed it onto his body, and he died.
	But, what the hell?
	Washington, D.C., right?
	Charles M. Blow of the New York Times, one of the angriest of the Times columnists, and that one of the angriest of the Times columnists, and that is quite a statement on my part, because the...
	Times columnists drip with anger at this country.
	But Charles Blow may get the award.
	He acknowledged that he teaches his children that whites are out to get them.
	These children of privilege.
	He went to Minnesota and he said it was hallowed ground where George Floyd died.
	That's what he called it, hallowed ground.
	That's what happens when you need a substitute religion, when Christianity in the West dies.
	Other things become hallowed.
	Well, the headline in the New York Times is that the prosecutor said, believe your eyes.
	And my producer reminded me.
	Of a point that I have made in my teaching of the Bible, many times, that the Bible doesn't trust the eyes.
	Do not follow your eyes and your heart, after which you prostitute yourself.
	It's almost never correctly translated.
	They find the biblical text a little too severe.
	Happens on a number of occasions.
	The eyes?
	Follow your eyes.
	Hmm.
	Follow your eyes.
	By the way, I don't know, did their eyes not see what happened before the knee on the side of the neck?
	Will they show that video?
	I mean, I have to believe they will.
	How much time the officers spent trying to get him peacefully?
	Into the police car and he resisted and he was a very strong man.
	And he kept saying he couldn't breathe prior to anything happening.
	And fentanyl was found in the autopsy.
	Believe your eyes.
	I wish they followed that generally.
	Did they say believe your eyes with regard to the riots?
	Not talking demonstrations.
	The riots of 2020?
	I believe my eyes on that, I will admit.
	Because that was the whole story.
	You can't believe your eyes if you don't see the whole story.
	But we saw the whole story with the burning of police cars and the burning of buildings and the smashing of store windows.
	Leading to something that reminded me, and I very rarely use this, but it did, reminded me of pre-Holocaust Germany under Hitler.
	When I saw with my own eyes and took a picture of it in Santa Monica, California, half hour from where I'm broadcasting, a sign on a boarded up store or commercial place, black owned.
	Tell me how that differs from Aryan-owned in 1930s Germany.
	How is it morally different?
	Leave this store intact because a certain race owns it.
	That's what we've come to with the left in the United States and elsewhere.
	The president keeps telling you to wear masks.
	I keep telling you, don't wear masks outside.
	Please, I beg of you.
	Please follow science.
	Please follow common sense.
	Please do not further destroy social intercourse in our country.
	The dehumanizing masks.
	They're a sign of fear.
	That's all they are.
	They're worthless outside, unless somebody sneezes in your face and has COVID. And even then, who knows?
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	This is Jerry Boyer of Town Hall Finance for townhall.com.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP. This has only happened twice before, both during World War II. This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop.
	Now.
	I'm Jerry Boyer.
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	Music The Democrats are trying to ram through.
	I think the reason why there's so many distractions in the country right now is because that's exactly what they've been doing.
	Since the second they certified Joe Biden in as President of the United States, everyone has seen it.
	They've been forcing one radical program after another.
	The most radical program is their number one piece of legislation of choice, and it's this.
	It is to ensure that they institutionalize all All the tactics that were used in this last election.
	That's exactly what the Democrats want to put in power.
	Why do they want to do that?
	Well, right now, they're the one power and party.
	They run the House, they run the Senate, they run the White House.
	They want to keep it that way.
	And in order to keep it that way, they want to put bizarre election practices that are against the Constitution of the United States.
	They want to put that in place because they want outcome-based elections.
	They want to predetermine who will be in power.
	And then these few elites will decide the laws that we live under, what our nation looks like.
	We'll be working for them.
	They won't be working for us anymore.
	Make sure that that's clear.
	We'll be working for them.
	So what they're going to do is federalize all the elections.
	So the states are on a mad dash right now to clean up all the messes of this last election.
	But in this legislation, believe it or not, Eric, they appoint someone in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to sue any state who tries to put election integrity in place so that you can know that your vote actually is going to count.
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	My theory is that the reason the left is pivoting and desperately trying to focus on gun control is that'll be the shiny object that takes all the attention away from the crisis we have along the border.
	There's no way Democrats can possibly explain this surge By illegals, and yes I know the mainstream media wants to call them migrants, but they are, after all, illegals.
	There's no way to explain this other than A friendly reminder that mortgage rates, interest rates are at the lowest that any of us recall.
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	AndrewandTodd.com I'm Dennis Prager.
	I've gone through this mask issue for a while with you.
	By the way, yesterday, in regard to the lockdown, there was a caller that I didn't take.
	A very fair question.
	Since I oppose the lockdowns, what would I have recommended?
	Right?
	Isn't that a fair question?
	You're anti-lockdown?
	Okay, Dennis.
	What would you have recommended?
	I'll tell you what I would have recommended.
	The quarantining of the vulnerable and anybody who is too afraid to go out.
	Nobody should be forced to go out.
	And everybody else should have had a normal life.
	But there's one massive additive.
	Everyone would be on therapeutics.
	Like hydroxychloroquine and zinc and ivermectin.
	The pursuit of a vaccine rather than therapeutics may end up to have been brilliant and wonderful.
	One doesn't even negate the other.
	But the medical profession has disgraced itself over and over.
	I have such contempt for the CDC that I think that it's corrupt.
	One of the C's stands for corruption, and another C stands for cruelty.
	CDC had nothing to do, as far as I know, with the policy that you can't visit a dying relative or friend in the hospital.
	While they claim that masks work, you couldn't visit them.
	If that is not cruelty in the name of safety, then I don't know what is.
	That Americans put up with that?
	That you poor folks who had a loved one dying alone and you didn't smash the hospital door down to get in?
	I wish you had.
	I would have.
	Be arrested.
	Let my dad know.
	Let my mother know.
	Let my friend know.
	Dennis smashed the door down to visit you.
	The corrupt medical profession had him arrested.
	Nurses could visit you.
	Orderlies could visit you.
	Doctors could visit you.
	Nurses could visit you.
	I said one of them twice.
	But your child can visit you.
	Anybody have a reason for that?
	Other than utter and total callousness?
	There's another piece about the CDC I'd like to bring to your attention.
	I hope it was printed out by my printer.
	Yup, here it was.
	I'd like to have this guy who wrote the New York Daily News article on that one.
	What they've done about opioids.
	The cruelty in this country toward people in horrible pain in limiting the amount of opioids that they could use.
	I'm telling you, it's like disappointment after disappointment.
	Every institution is rotten.
	Just rotten.
	The teaching profession is rotten.
	The medical profession is rotten.
	The FBI is rotten.
	The CIA is rotten.
	I never said these things.
	Never.
	But, hey, evidence is evidence.
	I wrote an article about a man.
	I'll tell you who the man was.
	The father of my two step-sons.
	Was in such horrific pain from a fall from a ladder.
	Unbelievable, excruciating pain.
	Couldn't get painkillers.
	Shot himself.
	At his memorial service, I spoke.
	Said I would have done the same thing.
	He was shot not by him.
	He was shot by the CDC. They killed him.
	Not to mention ruined his life.
	Peace in the Daily News, which, by the way, is on the left among newspapers.
	For the last nine years, this country has suffered from a growing overdose crisis caused by illicit fentanyl, a.k.a.
	the opioid crisis, which is responsible for killing more than 80,000 Americans in 2020 alone.
	It's a lot of people.
	This crisis started from good intentions.
	I don't believe that, but it's irrelevant.
	Because good intentions are as important to morality as whether you have a wallet made out of alligator skin or calf skin.
	Okay, that was fair.
	Over the years, as poor outcomes resulted, the complexity of the situation became more widely understood.
	And yet as recently as last month, a unit of the Centers for Disease Control, CDC, refused to consider changing the guidelines that have hurt people as much or more than they help.
	In 2009, the Obama FDA forced Purdue Pharma To reformulate their popular pain medication, OxyContin, which had been the primary substitute to produce heroin for the user on the cheap.
	In theory, forcing a reformulation would make conversion to heroin impossible, thus pushing users away from abuse and addiction.
	This turned out to be an enormous mistake.
	Users adopted black market heroin, rendered with cheap but exceedingly dangerous fentanyl, eventually becoming centralized in the illicit drug pipeline.
	Suddenly, first-time users, from dabblers to hardcore heroin addicts, began dropping dead.
	I will read to you more upon our return.
	Doctors are afraid to lose their license.
	Though I don't know why.
	It's guidelines, not law.
	I don't know.
	Doctors should call in.
	How do you look at people of excruciating pain have a solution and not offer it to them?
	I'll be back.
	I'll be back.
	Of course, nobody brought up during the press conference that polls show that Americans want voter ID, including black Americans.
	Yet your party trashes voter ID as voter suppression.
	Can you please explain how it is that black people want something that you call voter suppression?
	That didn't come up.
	Nor did the stunt that Tammy...
	Duckworth and Macy Hirono tried to pull come up.
	Two Asian-American senators, Democrats, a couple days ago they told Biden that they weren't going to confirm any more new nominees until and unless he appoints an Asian-American to a high-level position.
	Mr. President, what is your reaction to being pressured to put someone in your administration based on skin color as opposed to performance?
	As opposed to your comfort level with him or her?
	As opposed to background?
	Is this the direction we should be taking America, Mr. President?
	When you said you wanted a cabinet that looked like America, you're implying that unless the cabinet is racially reflective of the country, then it's an invalid cabinet, invalid administration.
	Is that what you're telling us?
	Should we do that with the NBA, Mr. President?
	Should we do that with doctors?
	Should we do that with people who design bridges?
	Airline pilots?
	Should we hire based upon racial diversity and proportionality as opposed to competence?
	I'm asking.
	I'm asking.
	Regarding the filibuster, at John Lewis' funeral, President Barack Obama said he believed the filibuster was a relic of the Jim Crow era.
	Check, stop!
	CNN does fact checks.
	I don't care if President Obama said that at John Lewis' funeral.
	I don't care if he says it on the steps of...
	I don't care if he walks out in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and says it's not true.
	It's false.
	It's a lie.
	So when CNN does that, they're using President Obama's lie to cover their own lie and they're not fact-checking themselves.
	Four questions about the filibuster because the media is left-wing and wants to change the filibuster, which They did not complain about during the years that Chuck Schumer used the filibuster to frustrate Donald Trump for four years.
	Bob in Atlanta, what do you think, Bob?
	Well, Hugh, I love listening to you, but I like to give you a hard time, too.
	So I'm going to cross with you.
	I'd like a yes or no answer.
	Do you think President Biden is that bright?
	I don't.
	I don't think he's that bright at all.
	What is your answer?
	Can you do a yes or no for me?
	Yes or no.
	I think sometimes he's very bright, but often he exhibits the same sort of slowness that my father, when he was 78, exhibits.
	How's that?
	Well, I'm not talking about that kind of dementia.
	Not dementia.
	I mean, he takes a while to come up with the answer.
	I think he's bright.
	He's a learned guy.
	He's been around.
	But I think when you get to be 78, it takes a while for the gears to engage.
	I don't think he's got dementia.
	I just think he's slow.
	Slow Joe Biden.
	I'm really glad you bring up the issue of values and patriotism, Sam, because I think this is so important.
	I'm really glad you brought this up.
	Hi, everybody.
	There was a caller from Lawrenceville, Georgia wanted to tell me about the inability to visit her husband in the hospital.
	I invite you to return, and I'm going to continue on this expose about the CDC and opioids.
	We have today and tomorrow left for fundraising month for PragerU.
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	I have a donor on.
	Fred Lucas in Montecito, California.
	And Fred, thank you, of course, for coming on, and thank you for your generosity to PragerU.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	I really appreciate the work that you're doing in Prager University, and I'm very excited that you're starting to focus on younger children.
	So, in a nutshell, please tell others, because you could do it better than I, why do you help PragerU?
	Well, you know, I think it's just critical that people remember the values of this country that has made it great, remember the reasons for their own personal successes and their ability to pursue, you know, happiness and freedom in this country.
	And I'm really concerned in watching Some of what's going on in the politics in the country, watching the propaganda that's being generated by the media, and I'm very concerned about the message that's being conveyed in our schools,
	you know, college certainly, but I think at this point, as a grandparent, I've observed problems all the way down to second grade, personal experiences with that.
	I just think it's just really critical that people who are concerned about this country sliding into socialists wake up and do what they need to do to try to hold on to the country.
	I'm hoping we haven't crossed the tipping point, but I think this is a really good idea what you're doing on the PrEP program, because I think we need to start with children and give them an opportunity for critical thinking when they go to school.
	Where are your grandchildren?
	Well, in Manhattan Beach and in the Santa Inez Valley.
	Oh, so they're near you.
	Oh, okay.
	They're not across the country.
	So, do you show them PragerU videos?
	Are they too young?
	What have you done?
	No, I, you know, where it's appropriate, I certainly do.
	And when I first saw the original announcement about PrEP, I alerted both of my sons to start being a little bit more diligent to the possibilities that are out there to help.
	What triggered your concern?
	You said second grade.
	What, for example, did you hear?
	Well, if you remember back when they had the shooting in Florida, The Parkland shooting.
	There was a march of students around the country to protest, you know, guns.
	And I had a granddaughter in second grade that her class, which was a public school, her class went out to march that day.
	And so that wasn't driven by second graders.
	It was driven by the teacher, obviously, and maybe the whole policy.
	That the school employed.
	And I just felt that, you know, I didn't expect that that's what second graders are focused on.
	It's unbelievable to me that they took second graders out to march against guns.
	Yeah, I mean, it was rampant all over education.
	So do you worry that your grandchildren will be affected?
	Well, I think in some, you know, I don't want to talk specifically.
	Just to protect their privacy.
	But I have some that are already intelligently conservative and some that have drunk the Kool-Aid.
	And, you know, it's just unfortunate that, you know, as parents and grandparents, we have a certain amount of influence.
	But the reality is, today, I think the kids are under tremendous pressure.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Well, listen, Fred, I want to thank you.
	You're a model citizen and a beautiful, generous donor.
	God bless you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	That's at PragerU.com.
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	Kamala Harris's niece, Mina Harris, came out and tweeted this, quote, "The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago.
	Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.
	Now, of course, this is not true.
	The shooter was not a white man.
	It was a Muslim, a Syrian immigrant to our country who killed 10 people.
	Nina Harris then went on Twitter, and her correction was almost worse than her actual original statement, which is a pretty stunning thing to say.
	Now, this is the niece of the vice president of the United States making a remarkably bigoted statement, stereotyping someone immediately as being a violent white man.
	She said this, I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting.
	I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive that the majority of mass shootings in the United States are carried out by white men.
	She's admitting that just because he was taken alive, she used prejudice and stereotypes to categorize him as a violent white man.
	But this sort of bigotry and this sort of over-racialization of every single incident is intentional.
	Barack Hussein Obama, the former president of the United States, came out and said that what happened in Boulder is because of racism and misogyny.
	I'm paraphrasing.
	That's the essence of his remarks.
	Tucker Carlson went after Barack Obama last evening, calling him a racial arsonist.
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	In fact, I've got a theory.
	As the Biden administration is now looking at housing migrants at military bases, as the Biden administration is spending millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on motel rooms.
	Brand names, by the way.
	This isn't just your do drop in.
	I'm sure this is the good stuff.
	ICE has signed a deal worth $89.6 million with a Texas nonprofit to shelter migrants in hotel rooms as the feds process a massive backlog of new arrivals at the border.
	This deal was announced the other day.
	This deal was announced the other day.
	This deal was announced the other day.
	We should put it up.
	The callousness towards people suffering on part of the medical profession is mind-boggling.
	Now, of course, there are doctors individually who are just magnificent and so on, but the profession in the CBC does not attract the finest people.
	That's obvious.
	The opioid issue, the depriving of people in horrific pain, can only be explained by people who have not had horrific pain.
	It is not conceivable to me that if someone has had horrific pain that they would support the CDC's draconian rules on opioids.
	On OxyContin, for example.
	I continue with the article in the New York Daily News paper on the left.
	By 2016, the CDC, under tremendous public media attention, unprecedentedly released a set of restrictive opioid prescribing guidelines written by members belonging to an advocacy group that I consider corrupt.
	This is the author of the Daily News.
	Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, prop.
	Out and out corrupt.
	These guidelines represented an even more radical swing in the other direction, restricting pain medication for almost everyone.
	Law enforcement agencies and state legislatures especially took the guidance as a hard rule That justified a crusade against prescription opioids.
	A crusade that would hasten the deaths of law-abiding patients and addicts alike.
	Five years have elapsed since the guidelines release and the overdose crisis is graver than ever.
	Today, millions of patients...
	By the way, what do you think the politics of the people...
	And the physicians for responsible opioid prescribing are, just out of curiosity, if you had to bet your cousin, the cousin you like, would you bet that they're Democrats or Republicans?
	Whenever I see a cruel policy, I assume it comes from Democrats.
	And whenever I see...
	Further restrictions on human behavior, on Americans' behavior.
	Five years have elapsed since the guidelines release and the overdose crisis is graver than ever.
	Today, millions of patients are without access to pain treatment.
	Millions.
	Millions of Americans are suffering horrific pain because of the CDC.
	And people watch Dr. Fauci like he's a saint.
	Including children, the disabled, veterans, African Americans, and cancer patients.
	Yet the number of those abusing illegal drugs is virtually unchanged.
	Without the CDC's endorsement to remedy past blunders, Congress and public health officials will push for ever stricter and more punitive medical access for anyone who ever needs pain relief, undoubtedly creating further tragic overdose deaths.
	That science proves this is a terrible idea does not seem to matter to the CDC.
	Science really flies.
	Follow the science.
	It's a phony left-wing phrase.
	You know what it's used for?
	Just to batter anybody who differs with them.
	And the public health profession appears to be about to make matters considerably worse with outright prohibitions of opioid painkillers.
	I'll give you an example of the cruelty of people on the left.
	When Rush Limbaugh had terrible pain and couldn't get painkillers from his doctor, so he went, I don't know, on the street or whatever he did and got substitutes.
	So he's described every time by left-wing descriptions as, you know, a druggy, a drug addict, et cetera, violated the law.
	So I have a question.
	Do mean people just gravitate left?
	What does leftism make you mean?
	I think both are true.
	Public health profession appears to be about to make matters considerably worse with outright prohibition of opioid painkillers.
	Noticing the suffering of millions of innocent patients harmed by those exceptionally unhelpful and misfocused restrictions, the American Medical Association announced its public opposition, forcing the CDC in December of 2019 to announce an opioid work group to revise and update the guidelines of 2021. Well, bravo to the American Medical Association.
	I attended that meeting.
	Tears were shed by advocates and CDC employees alike.
	Finally it seemed wiser heads would prevail.
	More than a few desperate patients told me afterward that if they could only hold out until the CDC corrected their guidelines, all would be well.
	Then COVID-19 arrived.
	At some point in 2020, the internal politics of the CDC shifted dramatically.
	Unbeknownst to the workgroup members, their regulatory authority got shunted to this other group that he called corrupt, an infamously political arm that busies itself with the contagious diseases of gun violence and traffic accidents.
	If you're in terrible pain or know someone like that, I'd like to hear your story.
	I'm really glad you bring up the issue of values and patriotism, said because I think this is so important for people in the West to understand.
	And as someone who comes from outside, it's easier to see.
	I'm working on my first book, which will be called An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.
	Wow!
	And this is really the point that I want to hit home.
	People need to understand in the West that what we have here is precious.
	It's rare.
	It's extremely difficult to maintain.
	And if we do not remember what our values are, and we don't speak up for them, if we don't protect them, if we're not patriotic in a healthy way, the West will die, like every great civilization before.
	and what comes in place of that is going to be China or Russia now as someone who comes from Russia I can tell you that's not a pleasant outcome I know a lot of Chinese people I promise you you know if you care about as people on the left claim to care about racism and you know inequality and depression well a world dominated by China I'm not sure that's going to be less racist I'm sorry right so we need to remember but the donuts aren't that good The light cheese are better.
	Yeah, bat donuts are probably not the best.
	But look, I think people in the West really need to understand that this is a civilizational issue.
	All this woke stuff, it's not just games.
	And I said this at the time, when I turned down that contract in 2018, people were like, why do you care so much about these students sending you this contract?
	And I was saying to them, five, ten years from now, these are the idiots that are going to be running our country.
	And they are.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	My theory is that the reason the left is pivoting and desperately trying to focus on gun control is that'll be the shiny object That takes all the attention away from the crisis we have along the border.
	There's no way Democrats can possibly explain this surge by illegals.
	And yes, I know the mainstream media wants to call them migrants, but they are, after all, illegals.
	There's no way to explain this other than the Biden administration's invitation to come in.
	I saw clips last night of candidate Joe Biden saying, we want a couple million people.
	We want people here.
	We're America.
	And.
	All right.
	I have calls from all over the country, obviously, and they're very important.
	This is a very important subject.
	I will continue it over the hour.
	The number of people seeking alternatives to OxyContin and opioids for their horrible pain because the CDC doesn't allow doctors to dispense it.
	Let me say on record, I'd much rather have somebody addicted to opioids and pain-free than someone life-ruined.
	I am certain that very few people understand how pain ruins lives.
	It's not a matter of mind over matter.
	It's not a matter of some, you know, chronic...
	Joint pain, which is bad enough.
	Anyway, you can take relief factor for that.
	But the actual, the real pain?
	You don't want to live.
	Lisa, good.
	You called back.
	Lawrenceville, Georgia.
	Hello.
	Hey.
	Hey.
	Hello.
	Hey, I was going to tell you about my husband had a transient global amnesia.
	Happened to him two Saturdays ago, and never heard of it before, and I would have probably thought it was just made up had I not lived through it.
	But he lost.
	He didn't remember anything for eight hours.
	And because of his age, they wanted him to stay overnight, and they would not let me go with him.
	So he was the person that had anything.
	He kept saying, how did I get here?
	Did I come in an ambulance?
	He didn't know anything, and they would not let me go up to his room with him.
	Well, they wouldn't have allowed you if he were dying, God forbid.
	Right.
	Yes.
	And I believe it really is.
	Go on.
	They're overworked.
	I'm sorry.
	I feel like they're overworked.
	Yeah, go on.
	I feel like it's because they're overworked and they can give subpar care.
	I stayed on the phone with him while he was in the hospital room and I was constantly hearing things that they were telling him and of course I would never have gotten that information and I would say, did you eat honey?
	Did you eat lunch?
	Did you eat dinner?
	Did you eat breakfast?
	Right, well they claim you can't visit because of COVID, not because they're overworked.
	And yet they visit him with a mask on, but the people that matter in his life can't.
	We shall return.
	turn I'm Dennis Prager turning now on the Charlie Kirk show you know what I'm really worried about is white Those are the people committing the most- Me?
	So you're worried about me?
	Yes.
	If I said I'm worried about black males, that would be a racist thing, right?
	You just said white males.
	That's pretty racist.
	Love, not hate, makes America great!
	Look at some of the Nazi propaganda about the Jews and see a lot of stuff that's really similar to what people are saying about the people of Israel.
	I wouldn't equate what's going on today with the rise of the Third Reich.
	Would you?
	No, I would not equate Donald Trump with the rise of the Third Reich.
	I do believe we're a white supremacist country.
	If we're such a racist country, why is it that Asian Americans and Indian Americans are actually richer than white Americans on average?
	Does any Obama separate 90,000 kids from their parents?
	I don't know.
	Does that make this right?
	In fact, Bernie Sanders put on his website in 2015, Dear Obama, stop separating parents from their parents.
	Well, all the images they're using on television of children in cages, those were taken under Obama.
	Obama separated 90,000 kids and there were no protests.
	Okay, so now we're interviewing you.
	Well, no, I'm just saying a sentence.
	Thank you very much.
	You protested under Obama, right?
	There were no protests like this.
	No hate speak!
	What do you mean?
	There was no hate speak behind what he did.
	I mean, there was no...
	It didn't come with all that evil, hateful rhetoric.
	Like what?
	Give me an example.
	Do you think illegals should be deported?
	Illegal?
	Like illegal immigrants.
	Where's illegal?
	Someone who is not here legally?
	Like someone who broke federal immigration law to come into the country.
	Well, maybe there's a reason.
	So there's a reason that it's okay to break laws at times.
	So if I'm hungry, I can rob a store, essentially.
	because that's the reason.
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	We have to do a better job of convincing the other side how wrong the policies are of the They've destroyed the family, destroyed jobs with things like minimum wages.
	We need to make the better argument.
	The fact that the majority of people, including the majority of Republicans, Michael, believe in a minimum wage blows my mind.
	We can't even convince Republicans how stupid that is.
	How are we going to convince Democrats?
	We need to make better arguments because I don't believe people are stupid, Michael.
	I believe that the captain on the Titanic, had he known about the iceberg, would have taken evasive evidence.
	We need to take evasive action, and we need to make better arguments to our friends on the left.
	I gave a speech once, and often when I give a speech, the audience is predominantly white, even though there's no entry fee.
	So I'm giving a speech, and there's a man standing in the back, a large black man.
	He's got his arms folded, Michael.
	He's got a frown on his face.
	I don't think he was part of the security detail.
	He looked unhappy with the crap I was saying.
	So I give my speech.
	The man comes up to me, and he says, Larry, I got to tell you, I am angry.
	And I thought he was going to say, you said this, you said this, you undermine black people, you did this.
	He said, I had no idea that there were more unarmed whites killed every year than unarmed blacks.
	I had no idea that young black teenagers were more likely to get a job than a white teenager before the minimum wage kicked in.
	I had no idea.
	And he rattled off all the kinds of things that I said.
	He had no idea that the black family, the out-of-wedlock birth rate had tripled from 1965. No idea.
	He said, I am angry at myself for being so foolish, for listening to left-wing sources, for not broadening my base, for not knowing more.
	I'm angry at myself, he told me.
	Now, if I can do that with that guy, we can do that with the whole country if we make good arguments.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	But the question is, will Joe Manchin in a 51 to 50 vote vote for massive tax hikes on individuals and corporations?
	What is the answer to that?
	Because they're not going to break the filibuster here.
	They're going to just try for 51-50.
	Well, I think, from my conversations anyway, with people who are involved in the discussions around this package, This is going to be, in some ways, the rebuild West Virginia bill.
	So, you know, they're not stupid.
	They know Joe Manchin wants to go back to West Virginia and, you know, be the king, you know, bring rural broadband and, you know.
	So I'm being a little bit hyperbolic here, but, you know, just picture Joe Manchin just riding into West Virginia and the roads are, you know, placed in gold and there's...
	High speed broadband there and everything's, you know, wonderful.
	So they're going to give him so much that it's going to be very hard for him to walk away from it.
	Now, I think there's a conversation.
	Is he going to be comfortable with 28, you know, hiking the corporate tax rate to 28?
	Probably not.
	He's indicated that that's probably a bit too high.
	So maybe the corporate rate settles around 25. But I think the incentives are going to be so high for him.
	As it relates to his own state, that I think it's going to be pretty difficult for him to walk away from it.
	You see, then they have to go work on Kyrsten Sinema, who is trying to establish for herself the John McCain legacy in Arizona.
	And there's an Angus King problem.
	It doesn't seem to me,
	when you read the Federalist Papers and the Constitution, that it's possible that the founders could have foreseen anything along the lines of big tech in America.
	The power that is in these few companies.
	Clearly our Congress doesn't know what to do about it.
	They don't have any clue that the free market is not an idol to be worshipped.
	It's a part of a larger freedom.
	And so here we are.
	I don't think the founders could have envisioned it, but they had correctives for it, which is why we need to, you know, really rise up peacefully and use the First Amendment of the Constitution to fight back.
	If we weren't in, quote unquote, lockdown, we could assemble in our town halls, in our churches, in our synagogues and mosques, and talk to each other.
	But lockdown prevents us from using our First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights, and that's intentional.
	So all --
	My friends, I welcome you to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Before I continue with the theme of last hour, because I consider it of such urgent moral agency.
	I never thought I'd use the term agency.
	What are the other terms?
	Matrix.
	Yes, the matrix of its agency.
	There are a few other left-wing terms that are thrown about.
	There's a headline in the New York Times today.
	Attack on Asian woman in Midtown prompts another hate crime investigation.
	New York Police Department said it was searching for a man who kicked a 65-year-old woman, stomped on her, and made anti-Asian statements.
	Building staff members who witnessed the attack and did not intervene have been suspended.
	Well, that's another discussion, and it is worthy of a discussion.
	Another hate crime against an Asian American.
	White supremacist?
	Who do you assume did it, my friends?
	Another white supremacist, right?
	That's the implication.
	But it's another black.
	And I say another black because the government data themselves show that blacks have attacked Asian Americans more than any other group, despite the fact that blacks are only 12% of the population.
	But it's taught as another example of white supremacy in the United States.
	Because the media lie for a living.
	They lie in omission as much as they do in commission.
	The reason they obsessed over Donald Trump lying is as a cover for their lies.
	Just like the reason they obsess over the quote-unquote insurrection is to hide the real violence of 2020, that came from the left, and to give them an excuse to pass more laws and make Washington,
	D.C. into an armed camp, which is pretty pathetic given that Washington, D.C.'s murder rate is the highest in decades, as is every other major urban area of which I am aware, especially those that defunded the police.
	And yet liberals keep voting Democrat.
	There is no greater irresponsible and stupid act than a liberal voting Democrat.
	It is pure emotion.
	I hate the right, so I'll just keep voting Democrat.
	It does not matter how much damage the Democrats do to society, the liberal will keep voting for the group that is ruining their culture.
	Their civilization.
	I was reading to you from the New York Daily News, which is not a conservative paper, about how they have the government, CDC, and especially this group.
	What's the name of this group again?
	What is the NCINC? Anyway, this group affiliated with the CDC, they've made it harder and harder for people to get opioids for horrible pain.
	So we have more people taking other stuff and dying from it.
	I'm going to have this guy on because I think we're putting the article up at DennisPrager.com.
	You should also read my article.
	We should put that up.
	I wrote a couple of years ago.
	About the father of my step-sons who shot himself to death because he couldn't get painkillers.
	I remember the suffering this poor guy went through.
	Congress is more than happy to play along.
	CARA Act 2.0 There's a bipartisan bill waiting in committee that if made law would make attaining opioids even more acute.
	Excuse me.
	Even for acute care, difficult.
	Limiting prescriptions to no more than three days as is recommended by the CDC. You hear that?
	Did you get through this entire piece?
	Because it's a dense piece.
	It's unbelievable.
	You're in horrific pain and you can get a painkiller for three days?
	The more the government controls?
	Those of you who want nationalized health care, great, isn't it?
	Look at all the rules you'll have to live by.
	Because you know that the bureaucrats are known for compassion.
	Right?
	With draconian state laws, state laws, chilling prescription drug monitoring programs, and NARC scores aimed at identifying patients at risk of addiction, adding in a three-day limit will cement full-blown prescription opioid prohibition, generating an ever-rising flood of human misery.
	A recent study found that more than half of all clinics now outright refuse to take on pain patients.
	You could cry.
	A CDC survey found 85% of patients said that they were not a patient.
	85%.
	In a sister study, almost half admitted to having developed suicidal thoughts.
	Sadly, indifference does not stop with the CDC. There is a widespread American lack of sympathy toward both pain patients and the plight of addicts.
	As advocates wretchedly learned over the last presidential cycle, Neither pro-lifers nor the equitable left is interested in halting our silent carnage.
	I don't know what the pro-lifers is about, but I read what he wrote.
	America, open your eyes.
	The damage inflicted on innocent and law-abiding American patients is profound.
	And the hard truth is, however nobly the CDC's intentions began, the bill has come due.
	That cost is a gentle massacre.
	An unheard anguish echoes inside gloomy rooms across the U.S. Let there be no doubt responsibility for those deaths and lives ruined rests squarely on the CDC. Its apathy, its dogma, its refusal to take responsibility, human lives be damned.
	But hey, you're all CDC says, CDC says, CDC. What if they're despicable?
	What if they turn out to be a-holes?
	CDC! And they laugh at people who say the Bible says.
	That's what cracks me up.
	Well, you know, Scripture says, oh, what an idiot!
	But CDC says, oh, wow.
	1-8 Prager 7-7-6.
	Kelly in Naples, Florida.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Hey, appreciate your commentaries.
	My wife had a work incident and came home and said she was a 15 pain on 1-10.
	So went to the ER. They gave her Tylenol.
	Came home.
	The only way she could get relief was flat on her back with ice packs on her back.
	Couldn't get up to barely go to the restroom, get anything to eat.
	She was in bed for 40 days.
	Because it was work, we had to go to the doctor.
	He said, if you can walk in here, you can go to work.
	Accused us of doctor shopping when we asked if we could have anything heavier.
	And I had had surgery just a year before.
	Walked out of there with three prescriptions for probably 100 opioid pills.
	Shredded them.
	And now I thought, what an idiot I should have.
	They were like gold.
	I should have filled that prescription and kept it around.
	I was so angry at the medical profession.
	I'm so angry at the politicians that created this situation and the doctors.
	It should be the Corrupted Doctors Committee is what the CDC should be.
	I'm thankful to you for calling.
	I think people need to hear real life stories.
	They will hear more.
	The callousness to human suffering on the part of the CDC. The idiotic rules and mandates that they pass.
	I feel for my fellow American who wants to trust the authorities.
	I wanted to, but God gave me a mind.
	This is Jerry Boyer of Town Hall Finance for townhall.com.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP. This has only happened twice before, both during World War II. This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse.
	And our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop.
	Now.
	I'm Gerry Boyer.
	Right, the problem is that whenever I'm confronted with this question, I immediately hark back to my childhood, the great comedies of the BBC, the wonderful documentaries it produces, David Attenborough, etc.
	It's like ancient history.
	You know, the two Ronnies, it's like ancient history.
	Yeah, and I have such affection for the quality of content that they used to produce.
	The problem is now is I think they've gone too far down a particular route.
	And not even with the content they produce, but with the people that they hire.
	They tend to be, you know, university educated.
	They tend to be very liberal, very metropolitan, very pro-Remain, etc., etc.
	And the problem is when you get a certain type of person, you create essentially a large echo chamber.
	And at that point, they can't see somebody else's point of view.
	They can't understand why people think differently.
	And they're only going to produce a certain type of content.
	And at that moment, the content that they're producing is out of step with the vast majority of people or the silent majority, as they're often known in this country.
	The remarkable thing about everything we discussed is the similarities between the situation here in America.
	And in the UK, the land of the indomitable bulldog spirits and the likes of Winston Churchill, I think it's not an accident that those two individuals who don't see themselves as conservatives, I'm talking about Francis Foster and Constantine Kissin, well, Francis' mother escaped from Venezuela and Constantine and his family escaped from the Soviet Union.
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	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Kamala Harris's niece, Mina Harris, came out and tweeted this, quote, The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago.
	So...
	Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.
	Now, of course, this is not true.
	The shooter...
	It was not a white man.
	It was a Muslim, a Syrian immigrant to our country who killed 10 people.
	Nina Harris then went on Twitter, and her correction was almost worse than her actual original statement, which is a pretty stunning thing to say.
	Now, this is the niece of the vice president of the United States making a remarkably bigoted statement, stereotyping.
	Someone immediately as being a violent white man.
	She said this, I deleted it.
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	this article.
	In a liberal newspaper, the New York Daily News, major column on millions of Americans who cannot get, because of CDC guidelines and doctors afraid to lose their license as a result, they cannot get painkillers, so they go on the street and get killed with fentanyl stuff.
	Bureaucracies lack compassion.
	Almost every bureaucracy is a heartless place, just the way it is.
	Then the biggest bureaucracy of all, right?
	health care for all run by the government known for its competence honesty and compassion I am I am angry on your behalf if you or a loved one are in terrible pain All right, let's see here.
	Los Angeles.
	Lewis, hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	How are you?
	Okay.
	Well, I have back problems.
	I have a degenerative disc disorder.
	So for about 15 years I was taking hydrocodone and regulating myself and now all my doctors refuse to give it to me.
	They try alternatives like gabapentin and even antidepressants but nothing does what the opiates do.
	And you might need to be on a sustaining dose for the rest of your life.
	That's right, of course.
	But they won't give it to you any longer.
	What does your doctor say when you tell him, nothing helps and I'm in horrible pain?
	What does he say?
	Or she say?
	Or they say?
	Well, oh my god, they say all kinds of numbskull things like...
	Well, you could lose a little weight, or you could...
	You have to generate this.
	That's the answer.
	Okay, now we know.
	You'll be out of pain if you lose some weight.
	Yeah, and exercise more, and do some walking, and do more walking.
	I'm a very active person, but sometimes I can't even get up.
	I can't even walk.
	Well...
	I want to hear from you.
	Look, I'm fighting on your behalf.
	We put this article up, by the way.
	It's up at DennisPrager.com.
	It's astonishing.
	Seminole, Florida.
	Dennis, hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	How are you?
	This is Dennis.
	I'm well aware.
	It's rare I speak to a Dennis.
	Hi.
	I've had back pain since 2000. And I do take opioids, and I go to a pain management guy, and they do, I don't want to say they regulate them, but it's quite often, probably three to six months, we have to go through a urine test to make sure we're not taking any street drugs or anything like that or any other CBD oils or smoking marijuana and stuff like that.
	But I could not survive without them.
	I have 10 herniated discs in my back, and I'm also active, and I'm not fat.
	But I have to take them just to at least get up and get moving in the morning.
	I do try and take one.
	I'm supposed to take two a day.
	But I try and take one, and I'll only take the second one if I have to.
	Why are you allowed to take more than three months worth?
	Well, they can only give me one month at a time.
	They only give me...
	A prescription for every 30 days.
	What if they didn't allow you to have it?
	What would you do?
	I would be in pain.
	I mean, I would have to go for injections.
	My big problem is I can't have surgery because my dad had surgery and our family has a gene that we didn't know until my dad had surgery that he threw a clot and that's what killed him and he had back surgery.
	Kind of like the same thing I have.
	So I had gone to a hematologist who told me my chances of throwing a clot are very high, and if I had the back surgery and throw a clot, yes.
	Right, but my question is, if they didn't give you the opioids, would you then be in terrible chronic pain?
	Yes, I wouldn't be able to get out of bed and move, because by the end of the day...
	Would you go on the street to get stuff?
	I would not.
	Why not?
	I would not.
	Why not?
	Because I just don't take street drugs, you know?
	I never have.
	Right, but what if it enabled you to get out of bed?
	I guess I might have to, you know?
	Okay, that's my point.
	And then you get street drugs, they have fentanyl, and you die.
	That's the way it works.
	So the government has, the CDC has passed guidelines.
	I can't say that I have actually ever heard CDC guideline and then thought it made sense, now that I think of it.
	The CDC, like the left, is almost always wrong.
	And I never said this before.
	I had as much respect for the CDC as any one of you.
	Centers for Disease Control.
	Whoa, whoa.
	That sounds great.
	What if there are a pack of morons?
	Can't visit.
	I mean, when I think of the rules of this country, that American, you can't take painkillers because you might get addicted.
	So drop dead of pain or kill yourself or go on the street.
	You can't visit loved ones dying because you might bring in the COVID, even though others can step into the room.
	With their masks.
	But you can't step in with the same mask.
	We'll be back.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The question is, will Joe Manchin in a 51 to 50 vote, vote for massive tax hikes on individuals and corporations?
	What is the answer to that?
	Because they're not going to break the filibuster here.
	They're going to just try it for 51-50.
	Well, I think, from my conversations anyway with people who are involved in the discussions around this package, this is going to be, in some ways...
	The rebuild West Virginia bill.
	So, you know, they're not stupid.
	They know Joe Manchin wants to go back to West Virginia and, you know, be the king, you know, bring rural broadband and, you know.
	So I'm being a little bit hyperbolic here, but, you know, just picture, you know, Joe Manchin sort of striding into West Virginia and the roads are, you know, placed in gold and there's high speed broadband there.
	Everything's, you know, wonderful.
	So they're going to give him so much that it's going to be very hard for him to walk away from it.
	Now, I think there's a conversation, is he going to be comfortable with 28, hiking the corporate tax rate to 28?
	Probably not.
	He's indicated that that's probably a bit too high, so maybe the corporate rate settles around 25.
	But I think the incentives are going to be so high for him as it relates to his own state that I think it's going to be pretty difficult for him to walk away from it.
	You see, then they have to go work on Kyrsten Sinema, who is trying to establish for herself the John McCain legacy in Arizona.
	And there's an Angus King problem.
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	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show. .
	It doesn't seem to me, when you read the Federalist Papers and the Constitution, that it's possible that the founders could have foreseen anything along the lines of big tech in America.
	The power that is in these few companies.
	Clearly our Congress doesn't know what to do about it.
	They don't have any clue that the free market is not an idol to be worshipped.
	It's a part of a larger freedom.
	And so here we are.
	I don't think the founders could have envisioned it, but they had correctives for it, which is why we need to, you know, really rise up peacefully and use the first...
	Amendment of the Constitution to fight back.
	If we weren't in, quote unquote, lockdown, we could assemble in our town halls, in our churches, in our synagogues and mosques and talk to each other.
	But lockdown prevents us from using our First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights.
	And that's intentional.
	So all of our speech is forced onto these social media platforms.
	And then to just finish the kind of evil circle.
	Big tech has been purging conservative voices, which I discussed with Tucker Carlson a few nights ago.
	And big tech is also an embrace with my team, the Democrats.
	But what's going to happen is a closed circle of all speech being cleansed of conservative voices.
	And then there's another influencer, which is very dark, which is China.
	A lot of thoughtful people with whom I'm in touch who are in the world of statecraft.
	Analysis are very concerned that China is also exploiting our vulnerability to weaken us.
	Look at what's happening to our country.
	We're not learning our history.
	Our history is under attack.
	Our history is under attack.
	Try to buy a house in any suburban area right now.
	It's almost impossible.
	My son in Pennsylvania puts a bid on a house.
	He's trying to buy a house.
	It's eerie.
	Not eerie Pennsylvania.
	It's an eerie thing.
	I can see how people get confused.
	He puts a bid over the asking price.
	And he sees ten other people on the same day have done the same thing.
	Folks, I'm going to get back to the issue of pain in America, and first, some pleasure.
	One more day of March and of fundraising for PragerU, and I have another...
	Terrific young person affiliated with Prager Force.
	We have 15,000 around the world.
	High school and college age.
	Now she is actually, she works with PragerU.
	She's a coordinator for Prager Force.
	Olivia, now is it Haber or Jaber?
	It's Jaber, actually.
	I blew it.
	I gave you two choices and it was something else.
	Olivia Jaber.
	It's a pleasure to speak to you.
	Olivia, what exactly do you do at Prager Forest?
	Yeah, so I have been working here for a little over a month now, and I am a coordinator helping with all of our virtual networking events, onboarding new members.
	I am helping with a little bit of the marketing and social media just to engage young students, young conservatives across the country.
	And help them find a community which is so important right now.
	Everything depends on kindred spirits.
	That's exactly what I believe.
	And that gives me the strength that I have to fight.
	How did you...
	You were at Berkeley, correct?
	Correct, yes.
	What were you studying?
	Gender studies?
	Medieval, Belgian, misogyny?
	What did you major in?
	So I actually studied classics and political economics at Berkeley.
	So classics was really Roman history and philosophy, and that area wasn't really very politically tainted because we were just trying to decipher what people before us from Plato to Cicero had said,
	and on the other side, political economics was when I started to notice there was a lot of infiltration of very leftist ideology in my curriculum.
	So I got a little bit of both worlds, so to speak.
	Right now, if it hasn't happened, it will happen.
	They will simply declare classics as an example of white supremacy.
	Absolutely.
	I think that is where we're headed.
	And it's a shame because classics really taught me how to analytically think and critically think, and I think that's where I developed a lot of the foundation for being able to reason through things.
	And it's funny, I came out as a conservative maybe six or seven months ago, and a lot of people who had also studied classics, even though it's a small major at Cal, Had reached out to me and said that they too were closet conservatives, which I thought was very interesting that maybe that major is producing some people who can think for themselves.
	Yeah, well, that's my old belief.
	Study Cicero and think clearly.
	Absolutely.
	That's a major motto.
	Can you say that in Latin?
	Probably not.
	You say you came out as a conservative six months ago.
	Were you in the closet until then?
	Yeah, so I have always been politically inclined, and I went to Berkeley really not knowing what I believed.
	And I quickly started to realize that I was right-leaning because everything was just ridiculous.
	At Berkeley and so I also realized that the social situation, the academic situation really didn't leave me much room to talk about my beliefs and I didn't really feel comfortable voicing them and that's honestly one of my biggest regrets and I felt by senior year I couldn't really take it anymore and two girlfriends and I decided to start a conservative publication.
	And we worked on it and worked on it, and right when the BLM movement was first coming to fruition, we had actually launched our website that week, and I was really seeking out alternate resources.
	All right, hold up there.
	Forgive me.
	I've got to take a break.
	This is really important.
	Olivia Jaber working with Prager for us.
	She was in the closet.
	This is a very big deal about conservatives in the closet.
	I want to remind you.
	Of something that should never be in the closet or should be in the closet in great numbers and you use it every day and that is relief factor.
	Here I am dedicating much of the show to pain.
	Nerve pain is not what you take relief factor for, but if you have muscle and joint pain, try it for three weeks.
	You will know in three weeks if it works.
	There's a three-week rate.
	1995 at relieffactor.com.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Kuerke.
	I'm really glad you bring up the issue of values and patriotism, sir, because I think this is so important for people in the West to understand.
	And as someone who comes from outside, it's easier to see.
	I'm working on my first book, which will be called An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.
	Wow!
	And this is really the point that I want to hit home.
	People need to understand in the West that what we have here is precious.
	It's rare.
	It's extremely difficult to maintain.
	And if we do not remember what our values are, and we don't speak up for them, if we don't protect them, if we're not patriotic in a healthy way, the West will die, like every great civilization before.
	And what comes in place of that is going to be China or Russia.
	Now, as someone who comes from Russia, I can tell you that's not a pleasant outcome.
	I know a lot of Chinese people.
	I promise you...
	You know, if you care about, as people on the left claim to care about racism and, you know, inequality and oppression, well, a world dominated by China, I'm not sure that's going to be less racist.
	I'm sorry.
	Right?
	So, we need to remember.
	But the donuts aren't that good.
	The light seas are better.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Bat donuts are probably not the best.
	But look.
	I think people in the West really need to understand that this is a civilizational issue.
	All this woke stuff, it's not just games.
	And I said this at the time, when I turned down that contract in 2018, people were like, why do you care so much about these students sending you this contract?
	And I was saying to them, five, ten years from now, these are the idiots that are going to be running our country.
	And they are.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Mike Delegger Show.
	My theory is that the reason the left is pivoting and desperately trying to focus on gun control is that'll be the shiny object that takes all the attention away from the crisis we have along the border.
	Thank you.
	There's no way.
	Democrats can possibly explain this surge by illegals.
	And yes, I know the mainstream media wants to call them migrants, but they are, after all, illegals.
	There's no way to explain this other than the Biden administration's invitation to come in.
	I saw clips last night of candidate Joe Biden saying, we want a couple million people.
	We want people here.
	We're America.
	We're America.
	Prager, speaking to one of the coordinators of Prager for us.
	15,000 young people around the world.
	Whatever your age, my friends, 23 in her case.
	Is that right?
	You're 23?
	Yes, I am 23. 23 or 83. You need kindred spirits in your life, my friends.
	This is a big deal.
	I'm speaking to Olivia Jaber.
	She went to Cal, that is, University of California at Berkeley.
	Majored in Cicero, Plato, Plutarch, and the rest of the gang.
	And by the way, did you specialize in Roman, or they only do Roman and Greek in any event?
	I specialize in Roman history.
	Okay.
	And you...
	Say you came out of the closet.
	Yes.
	So you then found kindred spirits, but didn't you also then find that you lost friends?
	Absolutely.
	I realized that once I started really talking about my beliefs and finding like-minded individuals when I started this publication, Also, simultaneously lost a lot of friendships.
	And I think that's something that a lot of young conservatives are going through or are fearful of.
	And it definitely keeps them from voicing their opinions.
	And I have to say that the people that matter and the friendships that really are important in your life are the ones where you can talk about things, including politics.
	I am curious.
	Let me ask you.
	Did any of those who ceased being your friend, did any of them surprise you in that?
	Or did you say to yourself, yeah, I'm not that shocked?
	You know, a few of my close friends did surprise me because they were playing kind of the morality game and I was surprised because Someone that's known me seemingly since I was eight years old should know where my morals lie.
	And a lot of the friends that I had made at Berkeley that, so to speak, let me go didn't really surprise me.
	And that's why I really didn't feel open talking with most of my Berkeley friends about politics, because I knew what the outcome was going to be.
	So it was definitely...
	A little bit of both.
	It's an amazing thing to undergo.
	So, would you say, finally, I could talk to you for an hour, and it would be consistently interesting.
	Would you say, and I don't want any humility here.
	My interest is not complimenting you.
	My interest is to understand this for others.
	On a scale of 1 to 10, a courage scale, 10 being maximal, how much courage did it take to come out?
	I would say an 8 or a 9.
	That week that I basically announced on all my platforms as well as my two other friends that we were starting this publication was a week where I questioned everything.
	I was getting inundated with hate message from sorority sisters.
	We were getting death threats.
	I started to question if the things that were being said about me were true.
	That's why I really honestly was looking back to some PragerU five-minute videos trying to make sense of everything.
	And the people that I relied on in that week got me to the other side, and I have never looked back.
	You should write an article.
	I'll try to get it published for you.
	That would be wonderful.
	I would love that.
	Yes, about what prompted you to come out of the closet as a conservative at Berkeley and what ensued, including some of the messages that you received.
	I think people don't realize this.
	The moral game.
	I had that actually done.
	Somebody who's been in my life since I was a kid, so obviously a relative, sent me a letter, knows me pretty well, and said, how could somebody of my moral standing support Donald Trump?
	That I was a moral disappointment.
	Wow.
	Yeah, so it doesn't matter what your age, it doesn't matter...
	That's the way they are brainwashed.
	If you supported Donald Trump, it had nothing to do with your support of his policies and the country, but you supported a mandate to test, so you must be detestable.
	They're simpletons aside from everything else.
	But anyway, so I'll just end with this.
	What role, and again, I want you just to be honest, I have no idea what your answer is, what role did PragerU videos play in your affirming what you believe?
	It played a very tremendous role in affirming what I believe.
	Specifically, Larry Elder, Carol Swain, just had some videos, especially with everything going on with BLM. It's very easy to get bogged down with the leftist narrative that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives.
	And just having people who are there to remind you of their personal stories and dispel these myths that, you know, no one wants to think they're a bad person, but you need to seek out logical arguments and work to deconstruct these narratives.
	And they do that really well.
	And PragerU videos were a lifeline for me, and I know that that's why so many other people love them, and that's why PragerForce community is so strong.
	This has been a total joy.
	I look forward to seeing you again, Olivia.
	I do as well.
	Thank you so much for taking the time.
	Thank you.
	One more day of fundraising, whatever you give is tripled.
	PragerU.com, 833-PRAGERU.
	I go to your calls when we return.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The question is, will Joe Manchin, in a 51-50 vote, Vote for massive tax hikes on individuals and corporations.
	What is the answer to that?
	Because they're not going to break the filibuster here.
	They're going to just try for 51-50.
	Well, I think, from my conversations anyway with people who are involved in the discussions around this package, this is going to be, in some ways...
	The rebuild West Virginia bill.
	So, you know, they're not stupid.
	They know Joe Manchin wants to go back to West Virginia and, you know, be the king, you know, bring rural broadband and, you know.
	So I'm being a little bit hyperbolic here, but, you know, just picture, you know, Joe Manchin's just riding into West Virginia and the roads are, you know, placed in gold and there's highest big broadband there.
	Everything's, you know, wonderful.
	So they're going to give him so much that it's going to be very hard for him to walk away from it.
	Now, I think there's a conversation, is he going to be comfortable with 28, you know, hiking the corporate tax rate to 28?
	Probably not.
	He's indicated that that's probably a bit too high, so maybe the corporate rate settles around 25. But I think the incentives are going to be so high for him as it relates to I think it's going to be pretty difficult for him to walk away from it.
	You see, then they have to go work on Kyrsten Sinema, who is trying to establish for herself the John McCain legacy in Arizona.
	And there's an Angus King problem.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show.
	All right.
	It doesn't seem to me, when you read the Federalist Papers and the Constitution, that it's possible that the founders could have foreseen anything along the lines of big tech in America.
	The power that is in these few companies.
	Clearly our Congress doesn't know what to do about it.
	They don't have any clue that the free market is not an idol to be worshipped.
	It's a part of a larger freedom.
	And so here we are.
	I don't think the founders could have envisioned it, but they had correctives for it, which is why we need to, you know, really rise up peacefully and use the person.
	Amendment of the Constitution to fight back.
	If we weren't in, quote unquote, lockdown, we could assemble in our town halls, in our churches, in our synagogues and mosques and talk to each other.
	But lockdown prevents us from using our First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights.
	And that's intentional.
	So all of our speech is forced onto these social media platforms.
	And then to just finish the kind of evil circle, big tech.
	I have evolved on this issue...
	I now believe nearly everyone should come out of the closet.
	The only exceptions are if you know you will lose your livelihood.
	I have a livelihood.
	I can't in good conscience tell people to lose their income.
	Other than that, If the issue is losing friends, they weren't your friends, or they shouldn't be your friends because they're fools.
	You don't want a fool for a friend.
	So that's not an issue.
	It is an issue, but it shouldn't be determinative.
	So I now believe more and more people need to come out of the closet.
	There are about 100 million of us.
	Imagine if we all came out of the closet.
	All right.
	Let me summarize some of your calls here.
	Don't hang up.
	This is really important.
	The other issue, aside from coming out of the closet, has been this piece in the New York Daily News about how the CDC has ruined people's lives having nothing to do with COVID. They've ruined people's lives with regard to COVID. They've ruined people's lives.
	With regard to pain.
	Being addicted to opioids is a very serious problem.
	There is something that is more serious.
	Having such pain that you either kill yourself, go out of your mind, or get street drugs to kill the pain.
	So isn't it better to have a drug that you may get addicted to that won't kill you?
	You can't function with high pain.
	Do you understand, folks?
	I think people who haven't had great pain do not understand it.
	They think it's, oh, it's mind over matter.
	Or like that moron doctor said, walk more.
	Walk more.
	I'll bet you that doctor never had such pain as that patient did.
	I don't know, does medical school teach you to be callous?
	Is there like a course in callousness?
	By the way, some doctors are terrific, just for the record, okay?
	I'm well aware of it.
	Doctors have saved my life.
	But the profession has disgraced itself.
	Matthew is an RN in Asheville, North Carolina.
	41 years old.
	Sees doctors withhold pain meds from his elderly patients with pain needs.
	From his elderly patients.
	Guy's 85, you might get addicted to opioids.
	These are the people telling you to wear masks outside.
	Just for the record.
	or that ivermectin doesn't work trending now on america first with sebastian burka
	i'm really glad you bring up the issue of values and patriotism said because i think this is so important for people in the West to understand.
	And as someone who comes from outside, it's easier to see.
	I'm working on my first book, which will be called An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.
	Wow!
	And this is really the point that I want to hit home.
	People need to understand in the West that what we have here is precious.
	It's rare.
	It's extremely difficult to maintain.
	And if we do not remember what our values are, and we don't speak up for them, if we don't protect them, if we're not patriotic in a healthy way, the West will die, like every great civilization before.
	And what comes in place of that is going to be China or Russia.
	Now, as someone who comes from Russia, I can tell you that's not a pleasant outcome.
	I know a lot of Chinese people.
	I promise you, you know, if you care about, as people on the left claim to care about racism and, you know, inequality and oppression, well, a world dominated by China, I'm not sure that's going to be less racist.
	I'm sorry.
	Right?
	So, we need to remember that China...
	But the donuts aren't that good.
	The light cheese are better.
	Yeah.
	Bat donuts are probably not the best.
	But look, I think people in the West really need to understand that this is a civilizational issue.
	All this woke stuff, it's not just games.
	And I said this at the time, when I turned down that contract in 2018, people were like, why do you care so much about these students sending you this contract?
	And I was saying to them, five, ten years from now, these are the idiots that are going to be running our country.
	And they are.
	And they are.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Mike Delacroix Show.
	My theory is that the reason the left is pivoting and desperately trying to focus on gun control is that'll be the shiny object That takes all the attention away from the crisis we have along the border.
	There's no way Democrats can possibly explain this surge by illegals.
	And yes, I know the mainstream media wants to call them migrants, but they are, after all, illegals.
	There's no way to explain this other than the Biden administration's invitation to come in.
	I saw clips last night of candidate Joe Biden saying, we want a couple million people.
	We want people here.
	We're America.
	And now, of course, there's a real catastrophe unfolding.
	And ground zero seems to be Texas.
	You know what I'm really worried about is white males in this country.
	Those are the people committing the most- Me?
	You're worried about me?
	If I said I'm worried about black males, that would be a racist thing, right?
	You just said white males, that's pretty racist.
	Hurry up the shoe first.
	Love, not hate, makes America great.
	Look at some of the national propaganda about the Jews and see a lot of stuff that I'm really seeing on what people are saying about the Tennessee.
	I wouldn't equate what's going on today with the rise of the Third Reich, would you?
	What did you do to say you don't think anything?
	- Do you think it is part of the Third Reich?
	- No, I would not equate Donald Trump with the rise of the Third Reich.
	- I do believe we're a white supremacist country. - If we're such a racist country, why is it that Asian Americans and Indian Americans are actually richer than white Americans on Africa? - Isn't Obama separating 90,000 kids from their parents?
	I don't know.
	What is his place on?
	Does that make this right?
	In fact, Bernie Sanders put on his website in 2015, Pierre Obama stopped separating parents from their parents.
	I had to move up on that.
	Well, all the images they're using on television of children in cages, those are taken under Obama.
	Obama separated 90,000 kids and there were no protests.
	Okay, so now we're interviewing you.
	Well, no, I'm just saying a sentence.
	Thank you very much.
	You protest under Obama, right?
	There were no protests like this.
	No hate speak!
	There was no hate speak behind what he did.
	I mean, there was no...
	It didn't come with all that evil, hateful rhetoric.
	Like what?
	Give me an example.
	Do you think illegals should be deported?
	Illegal?
	Like illegal immigrants.
	What is illegal?
	Someone who is not here legally?
	Like someone who broke federal immigration law to come into the country.
	Well, maybe there's a reason.
	So there's a reason that it's okay to break laws at times.
	So if I'm hungry, I can rob a store, essentially.
	That's the reason.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	We have to do a better job of convincing the other side how wrong the policies are of the They've destroyed the family, destroyed jobs with things like minimum wages.
	We need to make the better argument.
	The fact that the majority of people, including the majority of Republicans, Michael, believe in a minimum wage blows my mind.
	We can't even convince Republicans how stupid that is.
	How are we going to convince Democrats?
	We need to make better arguments because I don't believe people are stupid, Michael.
	I believe that the captain on the Titanic, had he known about the iceberg, would have taken evasive evidence.
	We need to take evasive action, and we need to make better arguments to our friends on the left.
	I gave a speech once, and often when I give a speech, the audience is predominantly white, even though there's no entry fee.
	So I'm giving a speech, and there's a man standing in the back, a large black man.
	He's got his arms folded, Michael.
	He's got a frown on his face.
	I don't think he was part of the security detail.
	He looked unhappy with the crap I was saying.
	So I give my speech.
	The man comes up to me.
	I got to tell you, I am angry.
	And I thought he was going to say, you said this, you said this, you undermine black people, you did this.
	He said, I had no idea that there were more unarmed whites killed every year than unarmed blacks.
	I had no idea that young black teenagers were more likely to get a job than a white teenager before the minimum wage kicked in.
	I had no idea.
	And he rattled off all the kinds of things that I said.
	He had no idea that the black family, the out-of-wedlock birth rate had tripled from 1965. No idea.
	idea he said I am angry at myself for being so fool you you you you you you you you you
	you you
	you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you all right Dennis Prager here.
	This is the Ultimate Issues Hour.
	The third hour on Tuesday is devoted to some great issue of life.
	If it has not become clear how important the big issues are in the last year in the United States, I don't think it ever will.
	It's all about big issues, and clarity on them is a necessity for the survival of our civilization.
	Ultimate Issues Hour today is about the ultimate question, and that is God's existence.
	Since I have done a lot of work on this, if I have somebody on for an hour about God's existence, that means I've got a lot to learn from this person.
	And that is the case in this particular instance.
	Sorry about that bang.
	Stephen Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
	In the philosophy of science, he directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle.
	He's authored a number of major works, and the latest is sort of the culmination of his work on God as a man of science.
	And that is the return of the God Hypothesis, three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.
	Stephen Meyer, it is a joy to have you on.
	It's always a joy to speak with you, Dennis.
	Thank you for having me on.
	You're so lucky to live in Seattle, just surrounded by kindred spirits.
	Well, I'm...
	Actually, in Redmond, I was telling your operator that I'm surrounded by techies with Microsoft, so we're in a place where people do appreciate the importance of digital information, which is, of course, what we're also finding at the foundation of life in every living cell.
	Right.
	Well, that was a gentle way of responding.
	I was being sarcastic.
	Seattle, like Portland and some other places, doesn't have a great reputation for openness.
	Maybe not the best place to run a center-right think tank, but we're striving.
	It's okay.
	We run Prager U in L.A. Hey, we're in a very similar situation.
	Absolutely.
	All right.
	So, Stephen Meyer, this is...
	Is it fair to say you're using science to argue for God's existence?
	I suppose.
	I think there are scientific discoveries that have implications that support a theistic worldview, is perhaps the way I put it, but that's pretty close, yeah.
	So, would you use the word...
	I'll tell you in advance, I don't.
	I'm a big believer in God, and for rational reasons mostly.
	Not emotional or even theological reasons.
	But anyway, I've never been comfortable with people who have proofs of God's existence.
	But if you feel you do...
	Go ahead.
	Well, that's a very good place to start the conversation, because there's been this kind of false dichotomy in the discussion of...
	The relationship between science and belief in God.
	On the one hand, there are people who were mainly scholars in the Middle Ages who thought they could prove God with certainty using kind of a deductive, almost mathematical style of proof.
	It's very difficult to attain that standard of certainty.
	It's only arguably attained in mathematics.
	In the absence of that, People went to the opposite extreme, particularly starting in the Enlightenment and right up to the present, saying, well, since there's no proof for God's existence, there can be no rational basis for belief in God's existence, no reasons for faith in God.
	And there's a middle ground in that, and that is that we can often have good reasons for believing things, even beyond reasonable doubt, without being able to attain the standard of proof.
	And in fact, that is actually the way science itself works.
	Are reluctant to say they've proven any given theory or conclusion.
	Rather, they will argue that a given theory provides the best explanation of the evidence at hand, and therefore on that basis looks to be the most likely conclusion among maybe a set of competing possibilities.
	And it's on that kind of basis that I argue for the existence of God as, again, the best explanation for an ensemble of Crucial pieces of evidence, and the ones that I look at in the book are evidences that are relevant to understanding biological and cosmological origins.
	Where did life come from?
	Where did the universe come from?
	If we examine the evidence carefully relevant to that, the God hypothesis stands out clearly as the best explanation against a range of competing...
	I hope everybody got that.
	That's exactly right.
	That's the single most logical conclusion.
	That is what Stephen Meyer is arguing.
	He's using science to show it.
	The statement constantly made, you've debated atheists, I have debated atheists.
	While you can't prove, I don't believe in anything you can't prove, then they believe in nothing.
	We work on the basis of what is the likelihood.
	So, in light of that, I just want you to hear, Stephen Meyer, I'd just like you to hear the late Charles Kronhammer, who was a secular man.
	And I had no idea how he would react when I asked him what he thought of atheism.
	Now, listen to this.
	Oh, I believe atheism is the least plausible of all theologies.
	I mean, there were a lot of wild ones out there, but there weren't.
	Really?
	So contrary to what is possible, is atheism.
	I mean, the idea that all this universe, I mean, what is it, always existed?
	It created itself ex nihilo?
	I mean, talk about the violation of human rationality.
	So that, to me, is sort of off the charts.
	Okay, so isn't that interesting, that this secular great thinker...
	Yeah, that's an interesting clip, because we, of course, admired Charles for all his insightful commentary about culture and politics and art and everything else.
	I knew he was a secular person to find himself.
	I did not know that he regarded atheism as such limited explanatory power.
	Right, yes.
	No, I knew you would enjoy that, and I never, whenever he was on, I didn't talk to him politics, because I figured people could hear that all the time.
	So, when you have a wonderful thinker, you explore everything.
	Okay, so the subtitle of your book is, and again, it's up at DennisPrager.com, my friends, Return of the God Hypothesis.
	It was just published.
	By the way, will there be an Audible?
	Oh, yes, there will.
	Good, because it's not available now, just for the record.
	No, but we've chosen quite a good narrator.
	I think it should be quite good.
	Good.
	Three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.
	All right, so let's get them in brief.
	Number one.
	The first discovery is that the universe, as best we can tell, had a beginning.
	A beginning in time, even a beginning in space.
	Matter, space, time, and energy began to exist a finite time ago.
	This really bugs the atheists in the scientific community, is that correct?
	It's been a thorn in the side of the physics, astrophysics, cosmology community since the 1920s, when the evidences for First, an expanding universe, and then for a definite beginning, too, that expanding universe started to come online.
	There's a great Princeton physicist named Robert Dickey who was looking for something called the cosmic background radiation, and he explained what the rub was.
	He said that an infinite universe would relieve us of the necessity of explaining the origin of matter at any finite time in the past.
	If matter and energy came into existence a finite time ago, The possibility of materialistic explanation vanishes because before there was matter, there was no matter to cause the origin of matter, so you can't have a materialistic explanation.
	When physicists proved something called the singularity theorem, it implied that at a finite time in the past, the laws of physics broke down, the curvature of Einstein's space-time went to an infinite corresponding to zero spatial volume, and before that time...
	It would therefore be impossible to explain the origin of the universe by reference to any physical processes or laws because physics is what came into existence at that beginning point.
	So this is, in a sense, an end to the materialistic scientific investigation.
	Great, great, great.
	We're going to continue.
	Stephen Meyer, Return of the God Hypothesis.
	The Dennis Prager Show.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Regarding the filibuster, at John Lewis's funeral, President Barack Obama said he believed the filibuster was a relic of the Jim Crow era.
	Do you agree?
	Check!
	Stop!
	CNN does fact checks.
	I don't care if President Obama said that at John Lewis' funeral.
	I don't care if he says it on the steps of...
	I don't care if he walks out in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and says it's not true.
	It's false.
	It's a lie.
	So when CNN does that, they're using President Obama's lie to cover their own lie and they're not fact-checking themselves.
	Four questions about the filibuster because the media is left-wing and wants to change the filibuster, which...
	They did not complain about during the years that Chuck Schumer used the filibuster to frustrate Donald Trump for four years.
	Bob in Atlanta, what do you think, Bob?
	Well, Hugh, I love listening to you, but I like to give you a hard time, too.
	So I'm going to cross with you.
	I'd like a yes or no answer.
	Do you think President Biden is that bright?
	I don't.
	I don't think he's that bright at all.
	What is your answer?
	Can you do a yes or no for me?
	Yes or no.
	I think sometimes he's very bright, but often he exhibits the same sort of slowness that my father, when he was 78, exhibits.
	How's that?
	Well, I'm not talking about that kind of dementia.
	Not dementia.
	I mean, he takes a while to come up with the answer.
	I think he's bright.
	He's a learned guy.
	He's been around.
	But I think when you get to be 78, it takes a while for the gears to engage.
	I don't think he's got dementia.
	I just think he's slow.
	Slow Joe Biden.
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	Guys.
	For 50 or so years, we've really not been teaching what does it mean to be free?
	What is self-government?
	We don't teach that.
	And so you drift along and something like this happens and people just sort of go along because Americans are nice.
	Who do you think is behind this?
	Yeah, I've identified a lot of the bad actors.
	Big tech is up $24 billion, $26 billion, over $100 billion for the six guys who run big tech.
	Amazon is up triple digit.
	Billions, you know, since last year.
	So, and they're all part of something called the COVID-19 Response Project, which started in March of last year to message how terrifying COVID was.
	I'm fascinated in a way that there are so few voices like yours that you're still seeing what you've always seen.
	It's just that everything has shifted.
	Has shifted.
	Yeah.
	I didn't leave the left.
	The left left me, as my husband said.
	Well...
	As Reagan said, Reagan said, the Democratic Party left me.
	And I think this has been a drift over the decades, but it's gotten so dramatic that there are many folks like you traditionally on the left who are talking about the same things those of us on the conservative side are talking about.
	Yes.
	And I have.
	Thank you, Eric, for noticing.
	I have been completely consistent in saying the same things ever since I wrote The End of America in 2007. Criticizing each president as he arose for overreach when he overreached.
	I don't think there are that few of us.
	I think there are that few of us at a national level or in leadership.
	And I also think a lot of us are stunned.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	I took a gamble.
	I am very transparent, as any of you who have listened to me know.
	I hide very little, and so I open up with you about even the mechanics of the show.
	I really, really felt I was taking a gamble.
	There was no gamble in a happiness hour, no gamble in a male-female hour, but Ultimate Issues Hour?
	Every week, and for many it's their favorite, and certainly one of the most important.
	I have a man of science on, got his PhD at Cambridge in the history of science, he's been studying science his whole life, and I want you to know that, Stephen Meyer, that during the break, The man known as the living martyr who is not prone to high compliments.
	I think in the last 30 years he once said to me, good show.
	So, just letting you know.
	Said he thinks nobody knows the science with regard to God like you do.
	So, that's a very high compliment.
	And the book is Return of the God Hypothesis, Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe.
	So the first one is the Big Bang.
	Now, are you with me?
	Absolutely.
	Okay, good.
	So the Big Bang, that there was a beginning.
	By the way, I assume the answer is yes, but...
	I'll still ask you, did you read God and the Astronomers by Robert Jastrow?
	Oh, absolutely, yeah.
	I heard Jastrow speak in the mid-80s when I was a young scientist at a conference in which he and Alan Sandage, a previously agnostic Jewish astronomer, announced that he had become a believer in God.
	Because of, not in spite of, the evidence from science.
	And one of the key things that he cited was his own work verifying the expansion of the universe.
	He was one of Edwin Hubble's graduate students.
	And Sandidge and Jastrow both had come to this position that the evidence from cosmology had clear and obvious theistic implications.
	Sandidge embraced belief in God.
	Jastrow...
	It was a kind of agnostic who wrestled with God, to quote my friend Brian Keating, who describes himself that way.
	So very, very interesting developments in astrophysics and cosmology that kind of came into the public awareness at the beginning of the 1980s.
	I knew Robert Jastrow very well.
	He came to my home on a number of occasions.
	He was one of the kindest human beings I have ever met.
	Aside from being, I mean, he was the head of the Goddard Space Center for NASA. I mean, he was a major scientist.
	Extraordinary scientist, absolutely.
	I just want people to know.
	So, I really adored that man, and I adore Brian Keating, and I adore you.
	So, I really feel involved in your lives and in this whole issue.
	Let me just ask you, this has nothing to do with God.
	There are two things that I think the human mind cannot understand.
	We cannot understand that there was no beginning, that something always was, but we also can't understand that there was a beginning, because the obvious question is, what happened ten minutes before that?
	Do you have an answer to that, or is it unanswerable?
	Well, two observations about it.
	One is, in the Hebrew Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, The writer of the book says that God has written eternity on their hearts, but they can comprehend it not.
	It's the one thing we can't quite get our minds around.
	But when we think philosophically, we always end up positing something from which everything else came.
	People who do worldview studies call that the prime reality question.
	More technical philosophers call it the question of ontology.
	What is the thing or the entity or the process that gave rise to everything else?
	And there are two basic choices in Western philosophy going all the way back to the Greeks.
	One is matter and energy, and the other is a pre-existing mind that gives rise to matter and energy.
	And the dominant view coming into the 20th century in an era that was dominated by the philosophy of scientific materialism coming out of figures like Darwin, Marx, and Freud's that matter and energy were eternal and self-existent.
	We now know that's not a very good answer.
	And that suggests instead that something that transcends matter, space, time, and energy is necessary to give a causal explanation for the origin of all that is.
	And it is for that and other reasons that many of these astrophysicists and astronomers who were involved in discovering the beginning perceive the clear theistic implications of these discoveries.
	Arno Penzias, who discovered the I love that juxtaposition of those two quotes because that sets up the issue.
	Does the universe look as it should if theism were true or if materialism were true?
	And I think the answer, based on these three big discoveries that I've examined in the book, is that it looks as it should, as we would expect, if there was a pre-existing creator, a conscious mind with purposes and design for the universe.
	The book is Return of the God Hypothesis.
	Three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.
	It is up at DennisPrager.com.
	Okay, what's the second?
	The second one is one that I know you know well because you've written on it, and it is the discovery that the laws of physics and the basic parameters of physics have been finely tuned to allow for the possibility of life, and that many of those fine-tuning parameters have been set from the very beginning of the universe.
	Many physicists will tell us now that we live in a kind of Goldilocks universe, in which the expansion rate of the universe, for example, and the force driving that are very precisely finely tuned.
	That is to say, the forces at work in physics lie within very fine tolerances, such that if they were a little stronger, a little weaker, if the masses of elementary particles were a little lighter, a little heavier, A little faster, a little slower.
	If the configuration of matter and energy at the very beginning of the universe were a little less ordered in one way or another, we could not have life.
	We could not even have stable galaxies or basic chemistry.
	So to get a universe with all the exquisite specificity and order and design that we see in it, it had to be a setup job from the very beginning.
	And the physicists call this the fine-tuning.
	And many have concluded that the fine-tuning points most naturally, most logically, to a fine-tuner.
	Sir Fred Hoyle, who was a great astrophysicist at Cambridge University, was initially an atheist.
	He was a profound skeptic of the Big Bang Theory.
	All right, hold on.
	Tell us what happened with Hoyle, because I want to tell everybody about the book, Return of the God Hypothesis.
	Stephen Meyer, the author, up at DennisPrager.com.
	I'm really glad you bring up the issue of values and patriotism, because I think this is so important for people in the West to understand.
	And as someone who comes from outside, it's easier to see.
	I'm working on my first book, which will be called An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.
	Wow!
	And this is really the point that I want to hit home.
	People need to understand in the West that what we have here is precious.
	It's rare.
	It's extremely difficult to maintain.
	And if we do not remember what our values are, and we don't speak up for them, if we don't protect them, if we're not patriotic in a healthy way, the West will die, like every great civilization before.
	And what comes in place of that is going to be China or Russia.
	Now, as someone who comes from Russia, I can tell you that's not a pleasant outcome.
	I know a lot of Chinese people.
	I promise you...
	You know, if you care about, as people on the left claim to care about racism and, you know, inequality and oppression, well, a world dominated by China, I'm not sure that's going to be less racist.
	I'm sorry, right?
	So, we need to remember.
	But the donuts aren't that good.
	The light seas are better.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Bat donuts are probably not the best.
	But look.
	I think people in the West really need to understand that this is a civilizational issue.
	All this woke stuff, it's not just games.
	And I said this at the time, when I turned down that contract in 2018, people were like, why do you care so much about these students sending you this contract?
	And I was saying to them, five, ten years from now, these are the idiots that are going to be running our country.
	And they are.
	And they are.
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	Trending now on the Mike Dillinger Show.
	My theory is that the reason the left is pivoting and desperately trying to focus on gun control is that'll be the shiny object that takes all the attention away from the crisis we have along the border.
	There's no way.
	Democrats can possibly explain this surge by illegals.
	And yes, I know the mainstream media wants to call them migrants, but they are, after all, illegals.
	There's no way to explain this other than the Biden administration's invitation to come in.
	I saw clips last night of candidate Joe Biden saying, we want a couple million people.
	We want people here.
	We're America.
	And now, of course, there's a real catastrophe unfolding.
	and ground zero seems to be texas keep up with what's trending subscribe on youtube today trending now on the charlie kirk show you know what i'm really worried about is white males in this country Those are the people committing the most...
	Me?
	You're worried about me?
	Yes.
	If I said I'm worried about black males, that would be a racist thing, right?
	You just said white males.
	That's pretty racist.
	Love, not hate!
	MAKES AMERICA GREAT! My
	friends, this is the Ultimate Issues Hour, every Tuesday, third hour.
	It's, for me, like a one-hour hot fudge sundae.
	That's how much I love it.
	And especially with someone like Stephen Meyer, who is the author, just published Return of the God Hypothesis.
	Three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.
	The first is the Big Bang.
	The second is the fine-tuning.
	Folks, if you looked at what had to be with gravity and with the laws of physics and with the speed of light, as he mentioned, and so many other things, the odds, the simple odds, if you were in Vegas, against there being life.
	Well, he speculated about that late in his career.
	He had shifted from a decidedly atheistic position early in his career to seeing that there needed to be some kind of intelligence.
	Behind the universe.
	In fact, after he discovered some of these crucial fine-tuning parameters that were necessary to account for the abundance of carbon in the universe, he was quoted as saying, a common-sense interpretation of the data suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics and chemistry to make life possible.
	I used to joke with my students, I find it interesting that monkeys make it into all the origin scenarios, even if they're about the universe.
	That's right.
	In any case, yeah.
	He was the one who coined the term the Big Bang, and he meant it as a pejorative against the theory.
	He was trying to ridicule it because at the time he was an atheist.
	He didn't like the implications of a beginning and a creation event.
	But later he himself came around to a more theistic, kind of proto-theistic view.
	He was sympathetic to the idea that there was a designing intelligence.
	I had a chance to talk with him in my second year at grad school.
	He came to Cambridge, gave a talk about this idea that maybe life had been seeded here from outer space.
	And this is something known as the panspermia idea.
	And I told him what I was working on, that I thought that the evidence of digital code and DNA provided support for a design hypothesis for a master programmer.
	And he motioned to me and kind of shushed, like, let's talk privately.
	This is too controversial to talk about in front of other people.
	But he said there was no question that if we could invoke a designing intelligence.
	That a lot of the evidence that we were seeing, both in physics and biology, would make a lot more sense.
	So I think he was having a shift intellectually towards a more kind of theistic view.
	But he did entertain that very fanciful panspermia concept for the origin of life.
	So I'm going to ask you, like I did last segment, something that's not fully related to the God issue, but it might be.
	The other one wasn't, but this might be.
	Do you have...
	An answer to the question, if life on Earth was the purpose, and indeed that's an if, I don't know if you hold that, but let's say if you do hold that, why is the universe so big?
	You know, I just discussed that with Brian Keating in a conversation we have, and I think one of the, you know, When we're doing work on detecting intelligent design, we're not trying necessarily to figure out what the purpose was, but rather to detect that there was the activity of a purpose of intelligence without necessarily being able to explicate all the purposes that the intelligence might have had.
	But to me, it seems to be just an expression of both divine extravagance and divine...
	There's a kind of extravagant beauty in the universe, and in life as well, that can't be explained by mere...
	Considerations of survival value as you would do in a Darwinian scenario.
	If you've ever looked at a picture of the Hubble Deep Field that is a magnification of a tiny quadrant of the night sky and you see that there are these beautiful colored galaxies as deep as you can go out into space, it's just a magnificent universe.
	I think we're surrounded by the grandeur of the work of the Creator.
	And yet, as far as we know, we are the only planet that hosts life.
	Maybe we'll find others, but at this point we're the only one we know, and so a great big universe apparently was created for our benefit.
	Or maybe to have, because you alluded to this, and I had not quite thought of it until you said this, and maybe you weren't even thinking of it, but it's sort of God's way of saying, look at what I made.
	It's a great canvas.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The universe, the night sky, is the canvas upon which the creation has been painted, and it's magnificent.
	Even a hundred years ago, we didn't know that there were any galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
	There was a great debate in 1920 called the Great Debate at the Smithsonian between two astronomers, one who thought that the nebular gas clouds We're just clouds of gas around stars in our solar system, and another who thought that they might indeed be indicators of other galaxies beyond our own, and it wasn't until 1924 that Hubble was able to make precise distance measurements.
	All right, we'll continue on that too.
	Stephen Meyer's book is up at DennisPrager.com.
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	This is Jerry Boyer of Town Hall Finance for townhall.com.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP. This has only happened twice before, both during World War II. This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop.
	Now.
	I'm Jerry Boyer.
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	FF, BBC, salvageable.
	Right, the problem is, is that whenever I'm confronted with this question, I immediately hark back to my childhood, the great comedies of the BBC, the wonderful documentaries it produces, David Attenborough, etc.
	It's like ancient history, you know, the two Ronnies, it's like ancient history.
	Yeah, and I have such affection for the quality of content that they used to produce.
	The problem is now is I think they've gone too far down a particular route.
	And not even with the content they produce, but with the people that they hire.
	They tend to be, you know, university educated.
	They tend to be very liberal, very metropolitan, very pro-Remain, etc., etc.
	And the problem is when you get a certain type of person, you create essentially a large echo chamber.
	And at that point, they can't see somebody else's point of view.
	They can't understand why people think differently.
	And they're only going to produce a certain type of content.
	And at that moment, the content that they're producing is out of step with the vast majority of people or the silent majority, as they're often known in this country.
	The remarkable thing about everything we discussed is the similarities between the situation here in America.
	And in the UK, the land of the indomitable bulldog spirits and the likes of Winston Churchill.
	I think it's not an accident that those two individuals who don't see themselves as conservatives, I'm talking about Francis Foster and Constantine.
	Thank you.
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	Because whenever she forgets to take it, the knee pain comes back.
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	My guest on the Ultimate Issues Hour is Stephen Meyer, who is a historian of science and a scientist, PhD from Cambridge, directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Great Discovery Institute in Seattle.
	Return of the God Hypothesis.
	Three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.
	First, Big Bang.
	Second, fine-tuning.
	What's third?
	The third is the discovery of great repositories of digital information at the foundation of life in every living cell, and the DNA molecule in particular, the genetic information that is expressed in a digital form, and it directs...
	And that directs the construction of the protein molecules that keep cells alive.
	We have a complex information processing system in every living cell.
	Suggesting, I argue, in my previous two books, and I reprised part of those arguments here in the new one, suggesting a master programmer for life.
	Bill Gates says that DNA is like a software program, but much more complex than any we've ever created.
	We know from experience that it takes a programmer to build a software program.
	We know from our uniform and repeated experience, which is the basis of all scientific reasoning, that whenever we find information, especially in a digital or alphabetic form, and we trace it back to its ultimate source, we always come to mind not a material process, whether we're talking about information in a computer program or a radio signal or a hieroglyphic inscription or a paragraph in the book.
	information is a product of intelligence.
	It's a product of mind.
	And so the discovery that information is running the show in even the simplest living cells is a decisive indicator that there was a prior intelligent designer at work in the origin and history of life.
	Before I ever read you or met you, I had always argued to people, if you found a computer on Jupiter...
	Nobody would assume it evolved.
	They would assume that an intelligence had placed it there.
	So why don't people simply apply that to the computers, or at least the software, inside of us?
	Is that a fair argument?
	I think it's a very fair argument, of course.
	I unpack that in a number of different ways.
	We have to address all the different proposals that have been made to try to explain the origin of the information necessary to produce, for example, the first life.
	But it is an interesting fact of contemporary origin of life research, it's called, or chemical evolutionary theory, that the field is in a state of impasse.
	Leading researchers acknowledge they have no adequate explanation for the origin of the first living self.
	The biggest among many reasons for that is that they have not been able to explain the origin of the information that's necessary to build a cell.
	Look at the chemical reactions that take place spontaneously, even if you choose the chemicals you want that are most life-relevant.
	They do not go in a life-friendly direction, and they certainly do not produce a complex information, storage, transmission, and processing system.
	That's just not what chemistry does.
	Getting from chemistry to code has proved an insuperable difficulty.
	It's acknowledged by leading people in the field.
	But instead, we do know of a cause that is sufficient to produce information.
	And that cause is, again, intelligence.
	An example I like to use is imagine you went to Antarctica.
	You were exploring, and you assumed that Antarctica had never been inhabited, but you went into a cave.
	And inside the cave, you found a bunch of hieroglyphic inscriptions with some characters underneath.
	And after a while, you were able to correlate the two and realize you have an informational inscription.
	Clearly, there was an intelligence there before you.
	All right.
	So now let me ask you some of the challenges posed.
	I think your arguments are insuperable.
	On purely logical grounds.
	And the third one is your specialty, and it's certainly something I had never known about.
	I only guessed it in some sense of my computer on Jupiter question.
	So, how do you answer the question of, well, I guess this goes to your second argument of fine-tuning.
	If it's so finely engineered, why does so much go wrong?
	Like, obviously...
	Children that have deformities.
	How do you account for that?
	Well, on purely scientific grounds, I think the question would be left open.
	But I think people who have...
	I'm a proponent of the theory of intelligent design, but I'm also a religious person, and I take the biblical framework seriously.
	And if you look at the biblical texts, You would expect to find both evidence of original design, but also subsequent decay.
	According to the biblical view, something has gone wrong in the world.
	And we see, I think, evidence of both those things.
	We see evidence of exquisite design in the genome, but we can also see, for example, the degregative role that mutations have played in creating things like I have a long footnote about this question of natural evil in the book and suggest that if you approach it from a purely secular position and you infer design,
	that's completely legitimate, but you still have this question of, well, what about the things that have clearly gone wrong?
	And I think the framework of the Judeo-Christian framework provides Provide some answers to that, or at least a framework for expecting both types of things in nature.
	Okay, great.
	Good, good.
	You handle everything.
	We'll be back, final segment with Stephen Meyer.
	His book is up at my website.
	I'll see you next time.
	Thank you.
	FF, BBC, salvageable.
	Right, the problem is that whenever I'm confronted with this question, I immediately hark back to my childhood, the great comedies of the BBC, the wonderful documentaries it produces, David Attenborough, etc.
	It's like ancient history.
	You know, the two Ronnies, it's like ancient history.
	Yeah, and I have such affection for the quality of content that they used to produce.
	The problem is now is I think they've gone too far down a particular route.
	And not even with the content they produce, but with the people that they hire.
	They tend to be, you know, university educated.
	They tend to be very liberal, very metropolitan, very pro-Remain, etc., etc.
	And the problem is when you get a certain type of person, you create essentially a large echo chamber.
	And at that point, they can't see somebody else's point of view, they can't understand why people think differently, and they're only going to produce a certain type of content.
	And at that moment, the content that they're producing is out of step with the vast majority of people, or the silent majority, as they're often known in this country.
	The remarkable thing about everything we discussed is the similarities between the situation here in America...
	And in the UK, the land of the indomitable bulldog spirit and the likes of Winston Churchill, I think it's not an accident that those two individuals who don't see themselves as conservatives, I'm talking about Francis Foster and Constantine Kissin, well, Well, Francis' mother escaped from Venezuela, and Constantine and his family escaped from the Soviet Union.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	music Kamala Harris's niece, Mina Harris, came out and tweeted this, quote, The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago.
	Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.
	Now, of course, this is not true.
	The shooter was not a white man.
	It was a Muslim, a Syrian immigrant to our country who killed 10 people.
	Nina Harris then went on Twitter, and her correction was almost worse than her actual original statement, which is a pretty stunning thing to say.
	Now, this is the niece of the vice president of the United States making a remarkably bigoted statement, stereotyping someone immediately as being a violent white man.
	She said this, Well,
	my dessert is coming to an end here.
	This talk with Stephen Meyer.
	Return of the God Hypothesis.
	Three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.
	There's no doubt in my mind, a lifetime of debating atheists, that there is a psychological, not an intellectual, block in taking the idea of God seriously.
	Nevertheless, for those who do take science seriously and have an open mind, this is an exceedingly important book.
	And I salute you for writing it.
	It could not have been easy.
	So, has this strengthened your own faith, or you already had faith in it?
	This has just, in effect, affirmed it.
	I came to faith through a rather tortuous process that took a number of years, and philosophical reasoning was very important in convincing me of the reality of God.
	But in my early 20s, I encountered the conference that I discussed earlier, where Sandage and Jastrow and Dean Kenyon and other major figures were who were...
	Arguing that there was this kind of scientific evidence that had these implications that were friendly to theism.
	And I was seized with that.
	I thought it was absolutely fascinating.
	One of my former philosophy professors told me, he said, this is one of the most important developments in philosophy in 300 years, that the scientists are coming around to see that there's evidence for God.
	And so it started a long journey for me, and it has absolutely strengthened my faith.
	Sometimes I think it's fun to go out and look at the stars at night and...
	Realize that some of those points of light upon greater magnification are revealing light that's coming to us that is stretched out and looking redder than it should look, indicating an expanding universe.
	And so the evidence of the creation event is no further away from us than one of those points of light in the night sky or one of the cells in a leaf in a tree or in any of our own skin or muscles.
	Inside those cells we now know there is this exquisite code that provides the basis for So it's given me a sense of the nearness of the, if not God, the nearness of the evidence for his existence as science has provided that.
	So I think that's an exciting development, and it certainly does strengthen my own faith.
	And mine, I might add.
	So thank you on behalf of...
	You know, one of the other things I'd add...
	Oh, yeah, sorry to interrupt.
	No, no, no, you only have a few seconds.
	I was just going to say one of the other things that...
	Yeah, well, one of the things that also strengthens my faith is the extremity to which people are now going to avoid the God hypothesis with ideas like the multiverse and imaginary time, you know, that sort of thing.
	It's like my article, How the Left Keeps Me Religious.
	My friend, you did great work.
	The book, Return of the God Hypothesis, it is up at DennisPrager.com.

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